Humans and many other mammals have unusually efficient internal temperature regulating systems that automatically maintain stable core body temperatures(核心体温)in cold winters and warm summers. In addition, people have developed cultural patterns and technologies that help them adjust to extremes of temperature and humidity(湿度).

In very cold climates, there is a constant danger of developing hypothermia(低体温), which is a life threatening drop in core body temperature to below normal levels. The normal temperature for humans is about 37.0°C. However, differences in persons and even the time of day can cause it to be as much as 6°C higher or lower in healthy individuals. It is also normal for core body temperature to be lower in elderly people. Hypothermia begins to occur when the core body temperature drops to 34.4°C. Below 29.4°C, the body cools more rapidly because its natural temperature regulating system usually fails. The rapid decline in core body temperature is likely to result in death. However, there have been rare cases in which people have been saved after their temperatures had dropped to 13.9-15.6°C. This happened in 1999 to a Swedish woman who was trapped under an ice sheet in freezing water for 80 minutes. She was found unconscious, not breathing, and her heart had stopped beating, yet she was eventually saved despite the fact that her temperature had dropped to 13.7°C.

In extremely hot climates or as a result of uncontrollable infections, core body temperatures can rise to equally dangerous levels. This is hyperthermia. Life threatening hyperthermia typically starts in humans when their temperatures rise to 40.6-41.7°C. Only a few days at this extraordinarily high temperature level is likely to result in the worsening of internal organs and death.

1.Why can humans keep stable body temperatures in different seasons?

A.Because their bodies are unusually efficient.

B.Because they experience different climates.

C.Because they can adjust to cultural patterns and technologies.

D.Because they have internal temperature regulating systems.

2.What does Paragraph 2 mainly discuss?

A.The dangerous effects of hypothermia.

B.The change of body temperature.

C.The survival of the Swedish woman.

D.The regulating systems of natural temperature.

3.People are unlikely to survive under the body temperature .

A.higher than 34.4°C B.lower than 29.4°C

C.between 40.6-41.7°C D.between 34.4-37°C

4.What is the best title for the passage?

A.Surviving in an ice trap

B.Getting to know hypothermia

C.Adapting to climate extremes

D.Changing core body temperature

China news, Beijing, June 5 — The Horizon Research Group conducted a survey about Chinese parents and their children in May last year and this year. Based on a random sampling method, the survey, done in May last year, investigated about 1,095 people living in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xinjiang, Jinzhong, and Luzhou. All these people were aged between 18 and 60. The survey shows that 55.5% of the parents did not know who their children’s best friends were. Fathers, in particular, knew even less about their children than mothers, as the survey shows only 33.8% of fathers knew who their children’s best friends were while 50.8% of mothers did so, China Youth Daily reported.

Parents with little education were less concerned with their children’s life, or whom their children played with. The survey shows that among parents that graduated from primary schools or without any educational background, only 33.1% knew who their children’s best friends were. Among parents that had received middle school education, the related proportion reached 45.5%.

This year’s survey was also based on random sampling. In May 2007, the Horizon Research Group investigated some 1,456 families in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Xi’an, Chengdu and Harbin. The survey shows that children under the age of 12 play for less time with their playmates than their parents did when they were young.

The survey also shows that most children at present spend only 21.9% of their time playing with their friends, while their parents spent 36.8% of their time with their playmates when they were young. Nowadays, most children spend more time with their grandparents or babysitters than with their parents.

1.The article tells us that the two surveys show the following aspects EXCEPT that ______.

A. parents at present spend less time playing with their children than with the older generation.

B. some parents do not know their children’s best friends.

C. educated parents are more concerned about their children’s life than those with little education.

D. parents at present are concerned little about their children’s life.

2.The passage can be found in _________.

A. a magazine B. a newspaper

C. a science journal D. a school book

3.What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Parents need to take their responsibilities for their children.

B. Parents should provide better conditions for their children.

C. Parents don’t play an important part in the growth of their children now.

D. Parents should let their children have more friends.

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